Howie Dickenman
Howie Dickenman
Howie Dickenmanis a retired American college basketball coach and the former men's basketball head coach for the Central Connecticut State University Blue Devils. He was the second-longest tenured head coach in program history. Previous to becoming the CCSU head coach, he spent fourteen years as an assistant coach for the Connecticut Huskies; the last ten years were as the top assistant under Hall-of-Fame coach Jim Calhoun. His first coaching job was assistant coach at New Britain High School in New...
central game limit minutes played playing remember shoot straight
We were able to limit them to one shot. We made them a perimeter team. We made them shoot from the perimeter. I can?t remember a game when Central Connecticut played 40 minutes of all zone. I just can?t remember us doing that, playing straight 2-3.
certain defending open people plays run work
They run more plays than the (Detroit) Pistons. There is no way we could work on defending all those plays. They have plays to get certain people open at certain times, and they run them all so well.
athletic defend offensive present problems score somehow somewhere sure
They?re very athletic so we have to make sure we score a lot of points. Somehow we need to defend and keep them in the 60s somewhere and try to outscore them. They?re an offensive team, and they will present a lot of problems for us.
coming defended few free limited players points quite rebounds
They got quite a few points in limited attempts, they made free throws, they got rebounds and they defended pretty well. That?s what you would like them to do as players coming off the bench.
bit court gave half justin kick near past shot stopped
That gave us a little bit of a kick start. In the past Justin would have stopped near half court and shot a three.
defense thinking time value
There was a time when he was thinking offense, offense, offense. Now he understands the value of defense and he?s one of our better defenders.
complete define game offensive players shooter
Some players you can define as a shooter and some you can define as a driver. ... He has a pretty complete offensive game at this point.
aware beat containing dribble job value
Defensively, he used to be awful. He?d get beat on backdoors ... he?s doing a better job on screens. Now he?s not getting beat off the dribble very much. He?s containing his man. He?s more aware of the value of defense.
beat easy floor ran
I thought we got out and ran when we had to. We beat them down the floor at times and got some easy baskets when they were necessary.
coming dice games good home roll showing signs team time
I think we?re showing some signs of being a pretty good team at the right time of the year. We have some home games coming up and we have to roll the dice and see what that in the tournament.
ball beat body chance easy guarded high land maybe movement percentage players reason seem shoot stand strength whatever
For whatever reason we don?t seem to shoot a very high percentage from 3-point land (against Monmouth) which has been our strength this year. Maybe it?s a little more patience, maybe it?s a little more movement of the players. If we don?t move and we don?t try and penetrate then we stand still and it?s very easy for our players to be guarded ..We need some body movement and some ball movement to have a chance to beat them on Sunday.
maybe
He was on a roll. Probably thought he could make 30-footers. Maybe he would have.
bit roll
We're on a little bit of a roll now.
giving hit shots
Steadiness. Lenny's not going to make a lot of mistakes. And he can hit shots and play defense. He's giving us a lift.